Vietnam Today

Petrol down slightly

Released at: 15:20, 04/07/2015

After rising significantly in May prices only ease a little.

by Quynh Nguyen

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has announced that from 1pm on July 4 the price of RON 92 petrol and E5 bio-gasoline will fall VND331 ($0.15) per liter, while oil, including diesel and mazut oil, will come down by VND221 ($0.1) and VND424 ($0.19) per liter..

RON 92 is now VND20,380 ($0.94) per liter and petrol stations are not allowed to sell higher than this price. E5 bio-gasoline now sells for VND20,050 ($0.93) per liter,

Petrol prices have been adjusted six times since early in the year, falling twice and rising four times.